The Wise and Ingenious Companion, French and English; / or, A Collection of the Wit of the Illustrious Persons, Both Ancient and Modern

by Abel Boyer

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Diogenes wrote upon the Foot of a golden Statue which the Curtezan Phrine had erected to Venus, in the Temple of Delphos, these Words: The Incontinency of the Grecians has rais’d this Statue.

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Diogene écrivit sur le pied d’une Statuë d’Or que la courtisane Phryné avoit presentée à Venus dans le Temple de Delphes, ces Mots: l’Incontinence des Grecs a dressé cette Statuë.